8th Annual Breakfast For Champions Has Carrot Appeal

Another great breakfast for a great cause! This time with a little carrot appeal. Together, we exceeded our goal by raising over $14,000.00 to support student nutrition programs in Brantford and Brant!

With close to 200 guests in attendance, the foyer was abuzz with conversation and comraderie over coffee, silent auctions items and, new this year, a fun photo booth provided by Edge Imaging. Young event attendees, Niamh McCusker-Korczak and her friend Kainaat Safdar, donned on their carrot and apple mascot costumes respectively, and added a youthful dimension to the photo booth.

Mr. Tom Mercante (far R), Culinary Arts teacher at St. John’s College and his students; photo courtesy of Edge Imaging

shared his experience of volunteering at the school nutrition program. Owen, along with his younger brother Jesse, help out their mom Christina every morning in the 5-day a week breakfast program. Brant Food For Thought is very proud of their student volunteers and their contributions to the success of student nutrition.

Keynote speakers, Rebecca Sherbino and Colleen Graham, co-founders of The Raw Carrot Soup Entreprise, genuinely inspired the audience with their social enterprise journey of providing meaningful employment opportunities for people living on social assistance in the community of Paris, Ontario. The Raw Carrot hires people with functional or developmental limitations and helps them cross those barriers to traditional employment. The employees cook up healthy, homestyle, gourmet soups and breadsticks that are sold throughout the surrounding communities. Their employees all have something in common: the desire to live a purposeful life. As a token of appreciation, Sherbino and Graham were presented with a 25 lb bag of Foodland Ontario heirloom carrots, much to their delight. Visit their website at www.therawcarrot.com and find out where you can pick up their delicious soups.

It takes many hands and hearts to put together a gala of this magnitude and Brant Food For Thought would like to acknowledge the many corporations, businesses and individuals who made this event possible.

Thank you to all our guests in attendance for making this year’s Breakfast For Champions a successful event. This tweet by a guest sums up our purpose in Brantford and Brant: “Thank you Brant Food For Thought for supporting student nutrition in our community. Healthy bodies = healthy minds!”

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